Cirque du Regie
His Regie recognition is as fleet as his singing: it took iltenoredigrazia only six minutes to guess correctly that Elektra was the opera depicted in our most recent quiz.
La Cieca invites him (and the rest of you, of course) to lock horns with a more knotty puzzler, after the jump.
Clearly, this is the Kasper Bech Holten production of ARABELLA:
Photo One – Arabella and Mandryka are reconciled at the end of the opera
Photo Two – Arabella and Zdenka (Zdenko) sing Aber der Richtige
Photo Three – At the Coachmen’s Ball
Clearly, this is the Brooklyn Pro Musica Moderna’s production of “On You It Looks Good,” music by Iphigenia Aulis of 377 Bleecker St, NYC.
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, since no one has guessed it yet.
Die Liebe der Danae. The second picture would then be Midas and Danae as she turns to gold.
This is obviously the Zurich Opera production of Beauty & the Beast.
If not Beauty & the Beast, then it’s Aida.
And if not Aida, then it’s definitely La Sonnambula.
Faust
Why Zurich? But you are getting closer.
Hah! A clue. The Geneva production of MY FAIR LADY.
La Cieca’s “lock horns” and “knotty” suggested (to me, at least) Birtwistle’s Minotaur. Which, I suppose, is sort of Beauty and the Beast. But there’s not enough blood in these pics for them to be that. (Plus, La Cieca isn’t big on Britons.)
It looks somewhat like a tragédie lyrique. Picture three could be a scene in the Underworld, with blessed spirits hanging about and all. Could picture two be Alceste with her husband? Then I would vote for Glucks Alceste (or Lully’s Alceste ou le triomphe d’Alcide).
The statue is so prominent and the only ones that come to mind Don Giovanni or perhaps Hercules or Cesare.
Surely the Commendatore would have worn Y-fronts?
Because the commendatore was rock hard?
No – because he was a Spanish grandee with lots of old fashioned underwear.
I think it must be Lohengrin.
Picture Three is Elsa’s trial.
Picture Two is in the bridal chamber as Lohengrin unpeels the tomato.
Picture One is Ortrud and Telramund and mein lieber schwanz.
Manou, the Commendatore can’t wear a thong without words in Act II.
Brief – but to the point.